150,000฿

Target

317

Donors

26% Funded

40,121฿

Level 3 target

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Teach For Thailand Foundation

For every 1,000 THB you donate, you help provide one student with access to quality education for an entire semester.

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Overview

Teach for Thailand is a nonprofit organization committed to ensuring equitable education opportunities for all children in Thailand. We believe in driving change one classroom at a time by developing a network of leaders through the Fellowship Program. Our Fellows work closely with schools and communities to create long-term, meaningful impacts on students’ learning and future opportunities.

Problem

Education inequality in Thailand is worsening.
– Thai 15-year-olds lag two years behind their global peers.
– Over half of new graduates do not want to pursue a teaching career.
– Students from low-income families fall 3.8 years behind in learning compared to their wealthier peers.
This growing gap is driven by systemic barriers, economic disparities, and a shortage of qualified educators. To close this gap, we need skilled, committed individuals who deeply understand the challenges of Thailand’s education system.

Mission

Teach for Thailand develops leaders to improve educational opportunities for children in Thailand through our 2-year Fellowship Program where we recruit, develop and place people from all backgrounds to teach in underserved schools for 2 years. During this time, Fellows learn through firsthand experience and develop leadership skills by collaborating with stakeholders in schools and communities.

After their experience, graduates of the Program are empowered to drive positive changes in Thai education and beyond. Whether they carry on as teachers, become policymakers, start their own social enterprises or work in the public or private sector, they are able to affect change in different ways.
Over the past 12 years, Teach for Thailand has:
– Reached 168,000+ students nationwide
– Trained 563 Fellows placed in 110 schools & communities
– Built an alumni network of 362 leaders working across sectors to create lasting educational impact for 153,000 students

Donations will be used to support the operations of the foundation, enabling our Fellows and Alumni to create a positive impact for over 100,000 students across the country.

Your Impact

We still need funding to reach 25,000 more students in 2025.Every 1,000 THB you donate helps provide quality education for one student for an entire semester. Join us in ensuring every child in Thailand has the opportunity to learn, grow, and shape their own future.

More information

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeachForThailand
Website: www.teachforthailand.org

Update June 2024

Teacher for Thailand kickstarted their 11th year and called for application of volunteer teachers who will be helping to improve the quality of education in Thailand. Teach for Thailand also organize a workshop to encourage everyone to sharpen their storytelling skills. These skills will help with their presentation and job interview.

Update October 2022

Currently, 108 fellows from Teach For Thailand are working in 50 schools across 16 provinces. More than 13,000 students benefited from our fellows’ work in 2022 and every semester, the average score of our students increases by 20–50%. We are also seeing 250 alumni assume many positions to catalyze and influence change.
One highlight of this would be, four alumni are working with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) team to drive change in education, in particular Khun Giraffe (Cohort 1 Alumnus) whose Saturday School program was the inspiration to the flagship After School Program, under the new Governor of Bangkok, which he is now co-leading with the education office at BMA.
Over the past 9 years, Teach For Thailand has reached more than 64,000 students through 440 fellows, empowered 99 schools and communities across 16 provinces in Thailand. In 2022 alone, more than 250 alumni are working across sectors to collectively impact more than 100,000 students in Thailand.

Update July 2022

We kicked start 2022 with 9th generation Teach for Thailand teacher recruitment with a total of 1500 applicants. The number of applicants for our program indicates that our organization is becoming well-known, especially among those who are interested in participating in social projects. Due to our limited budget, however, we were able to only hire 60 teachers for our program.

At the moment, we are currently training our 9th gen teachers before taking part in leading real-life classrooms.

Update September 2021

Teach For Thailand has operated for 7 seasons. So far, we have collaborated with more than 39 schools in 13 provinces around Thailand. Every semester there will be around 8,500 students in our. By the end of this October, season 8 will start. There will be 104 teachers covering 14 provinces inThailand. However, the actual classes will take place around November.

For the past season, due to the pandemic, the teaching style was adapted and adjusted to be coordinated with the government’s protocol. We came up with the “Learning Box” activity with aims to let the students have independence when it comes to studying. To clarify, the students were able to choose whenever and wherever they wanted to learn. These learning box’s equipment were also designed in the paper based form so that the students did not have to spend much time on communication tools such as the internet and social media. Doing so also helps reduce educational inequality.

Apart from improving the learners ,Teach For Thailand also improved the quality of the instructor’s as well. We teamed up with the ministry of education to establish the Coding Program. This program focuses on granting the teachers their teaching permits.

Moreover, we also launched the new program called “โครงการครูผู้นำฯ ของชุมชน โดยชุมชน เพื่อชุมชน”. This program allows the local people to have more opportunity to be a part in developing and making the differences in their community. In addition to this, we also support the Fellow teachers who participate in this 8th season by setting up the 8-week training sessions for them so that they will have better comprehension and skills which are significant for their teaching.

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150,000฿

Target

317

Donors

Provide a student with one semester of good quality education

Teach For Thailand Foundation